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Originally Posted by Kind Lampshade Maker
More proof that 3rd gendered persons had not yet gained control of the fashion business, back then
I've been around there for a long while and have never yet heard this expression. Sounds like a word a foreigner would invent to express a feeling he/she has and not any feeling shared by a German. |
I hadn't heard it either, but it seems about right to me.
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If anything, a German will look at others in a clinical manner as if they are standing in a testtube or are getting viewed under a microscope.
Unlike, say, in the Kwa or in Ireland, Germans extremely rarely criticize strangers in public
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I noticed that too. Only time I really saw a mini-eruption was a fender bender when a couple women were getting into it. The one sounded like a cat issuing that drawn-out, increasingly high-pitched warning growl. Other than that, people tended to be quite stony-faced in public. It truly is odd to be in a place where there is a social stigma against jaywalking.